“I exist only to protect Krypton. That is the sole purpose for which I was born. And every action I take, no matter how violent or how cruel, is for the greater good of my people. And now... I have no people. My soul, that is what you have taken from me!”

“- Lor-Em: General Zod, for the crimes of murder and high treason, the council has sentenced you and your fellow insurgents to 300 cycles of somatic reconditioning. Do you have any last words?- General Zod: You won't kill us yourself! You wouldn't dirty your hands but you'll damn us to a black hole for eternity! Jor-El was right! You're a pack...” (continue)(continue reading)Julian Richings - Lor-Em
Michael Shannon - General Zod

“You wake up one day and you're an adult. And all the people you were just dreaming about have gone and changed. So you shake the sleep-dust from your eyes and you say, was it really so long ago that you and I sat together having fun?”Michael Shannon - John Rosow

“- Galen: I know I'm just your uncle, not a parent, but uh, you can tell me things if need to.- Neckbone: I can tell you this helmet smells like my duck butter.”Michael Shannon - Galen
Jacob Lofland - Neckbone

“- Richard Strickland: The thing we keep in there is an affront. Do you know what an affront is, Zelda?- Zelda: Something offensive?- Richard Strickland: That's right. And I should know, I dragged that... filthy thing... out of the river muck in South America all the way here. And along the way we didn't get to like each other much. Now. You...” (continue)(continue reading)

“- Walter: You know, talking to you is like riding on a fucking merry-go-round.- Rosen: That's a marvelous image, Walter. Because by going in circles, we find things we missed the first time around.”Kevin Bacon - Walter
Michael Shannon - Rosen

“My name is General Zod. I come from a world far from yours. For some time, your world has sheltered one of my citizens. I request that you return this individual to my custody. For reasons unknown, he has chosen to keep his existence a secret from you. He will have made efforts to blend in. He will look like you, but he is not one of you.”

It's the way things are, it's "the rich get richer, the poor get poorer." They devised a plan to manipulate technology, economics, the media, population control, world religion, to keep things the way they are. And they have continued to meet once a year, every year, since the original meeting.

“Recently, for a second or two I almost felt like things were okay with the world. Strange to feel that way, when you know there are wars everywhere, everything's going to hell in a hand basket. But still I must admit, for a moment, I felt some kind of peace.”Michael Shannon - John Rosow

“- April Wheeler: I hear you're a mathematician.- John Givings: You hear wrong. Its all gone now.- April Wheeler: All gone?- John Givings: You know what electrical shock treatments are?- April Wheeler: Yes. Yes, I do.- John Givings: I had thirty-seven. It's supposed to jolt out the emotional problems. It just jolted out the mathematics.”Kate Winslet - April Wheeler
Michael Shannon - John Givings

“You have a center, right? A place inside of you that's just you, that hasn't been spoiled. And I think it's really important to try and keep that space sacred. Sex or relationships cloud that space... or they cloud me I guess, and make it difficult to be just me and not have to worry about... being somebody else.”Michael Shannon - Peter Evans